The Two Faces of Fujimori’s Rural Policy
A new law has opened up the fertile lands along the coast to the market. In the Andean highlands, however, ...
Counterinsurgency = Impunity
THE WAR AGAINST SENDERO LUMINOSO HAS become synonymous with the systematic violation of human rights. About half of the nearly ...
Peru: Amnesty Speaks Out
A report recently released by Amnesty International entitled "Peru: Torture and Extra-judicial Executions," has served to con- firm allegations by ...
Peru’s Dispossessed Look Homeward
Two years ago, a violent attack on the Ayacuchan village of Nuñunhuaycco-Patahuasi by the fundamentalist Maoist group Shining Path (Sendero ...
Shining Path in the 21st Century: Actors in Search of a New Script
After Guzmhn proposed a peace agreement with the government, Shining Path split into two factions. Both seek to resolve the ...
PERU Ayacucho Under Siege
AYACUCHO, Peru-Dozens of soldiers surrounded our plane as we landed at the Ayacucho airport. After passing a military checkpoint, we ...
Plotting Fear: The Uses of Terror in Peru
In July 2000, I was invited by a colleague to attend a conference at San Marcos University in Lima at ...
Women at War
In June of 1986, I meet with a leader of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP), the movement known as ...
